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The WA Government's Pastoral Board finally registered the offi- cial change of ownership on | September 1993. he chose Banjawarn due to its isolation rather than its contained ura- The WA Government's Pastoral Board finally registered the offi- nium prospects which, if anything, were much smaller and lower in _cial change of ownership on 1 September 1993. grade than those located on the other stations he had inspected. Banjawarn is arguably the most isolated sheep station in the east- © THE AUM THAT NEVER WAS ern Goldfields, and the area lying along its northern, northeastern and In mid-1995 the chief lawyer of the US Senate inquiry into the eastern perimeter is even more isolated sand-dune/spinifex country Aum sect informed this author of the Aum's great interest in Nikola linked to the edge of the Gibson Desert. The entire area is almost Tesla's EM earthquake-inducing weapons technology. This suggest- totally devoid of inhabitants. ed an interesting line of research and posed the question of whether Hayakawa attempted to purchase the station then and there in mid- there was a connection between the bizarre fireball events of the April 1993, showing the owner a briefcase full of Australian paper night of 28 May 1993 and the interest shown by Hayakawa and the money notes. The owner, being a prudent man and well aware of Aum sect in Banjawarn station. colour ink-jet printers, refused to deal in that manner and requested a On 26 May 1993 a party of Australian and Japanese amateur properly signed legal purchase document and the handover of a rep- astronomers was touring the Goldfields en route from Leonora to utable WA bank cheque. Meekatharra when they encountered several Japanese people camped Obviously Hayakawa was keen for the Aum to own the Banjawarn in the bush north of Leonora. The Japanese astronomers remarked to station right away, in mid-April 1993—which suggests he was oper- their companions that these people were quite strange in their ating to a tight time schedule. demeanour and conversation, and they were seen to be very oddly Hayakawa then immediately returned to Perth and left for Tokyo, attired. It is quite possible they were Aum members, as the sect is but in early May 1993 he travelled to the Soviet naval base at Cam _ renowned in Japan for strange dress and behaviour. Ranh Bay in Vietnam—according to Japanese Police inspection of From where they were camped it was only about one hour by 4WD his travel agent's ticket stub lists. vehicle on bush roads to the 28 May event's Later in April 1993 two other ground-zero location near or on Banjawarn Aum personnel arrived in Perth station. These people were ideally place: from Tokyo, whereupon they In mid-1 995 the chief lawyer of to cover the fireball events that occurred utilised the services of a firm of the US Senate inquiry into the just two days later. Japanese tourists are solicitors to establish a WA com- . x very rare in this region which is well off the pany and draw up a legal purchase | Aum sect informed this author of ff beaten track. document which would be satisfac- the Aum's great interest in Nikola The Australian Federal Police informe tory to the owners of Banjawarn me in April 1995 that Aum sect personnel, station. These Aum representa- Tesla's EM earthquake-inducing including their science minister Hideo weapons technology. tives had a poor command of English and were quite agitated at the slow and lengthy legal process Murai (a nuclear physicist, regarded as "the most intelligent living Japanese"), were at Banjawarn on 28 May 1993, having arrive necessary to effect the purchase in Australia in mid-May. (Interestingly, agreement—which again suggests Murai also had a pre-Aum background in a tight timetable for their agenda. EM technology. He had worked at Kobe Steel, researching This Banjawarn purchase agreement was signed on 23 April 1993. microwave and other EM ray/wave technology applications for cold Yasuko Shimada, being an Australian resident, was co-signatory on moulding of steel, having graduated as an astrophysicist specialising the Banjawarn ownership papers in order to help the Aum get past in cosmic X-ray analysis. His Kobe Steel laboratory was at the epi- Australian land ownership regulations. Without her Mahikari help, centre of the great 1995 Kobe earthquake.) the Aum would have had severe problems gaining title to Banjawarn About one month later the Federal Police retracted this story, stat- and conducting experiments there "for the benefit of mankind". ing that there was no evidence of any Aum members being at I find it interesting that the Mahikari sect includes amongst its Banjawarn (or in Australia) at the time of the fireball event, therefore members the wife of the Premier of Western Australia; the same the Aum could not have been involved in the event of 28 May. Premier who had an investigation conducted into the Aum sect's The amateur astronomers' information suggests that the Federal activities in connection with the "Banjawarn Bang". He was prompt- _ Police were at best mistaken. Unknown Aum members could easily ed by my 1995 report to him regarding the early have arrived in eastern Australia posing as Japanese tourists and fireball/explosion/quake data that suggested this event could have might have been missed by Australian immigration authorities. been nuclear in nature and was certainly suspicious enough to war- The Australian Federal Police also claimed later that ownership of rant a full scientific investigation. the Banjawarn station was only transferred to the Aum sect as late as Premier Court stated in a letter to me (dated 15 May 1996) that this September 1993, hence there was no possible tie-up with the fireball WA Police inquiry had established that the Banjawarn event was nat- ~— events. Technically this is correct, since this was when the WA ural in origin. Yet not one of the eyewitnesses (whose testimony was Pastoral Board registered the change of ownership. However, this detailed in my report) was ever approached by the WA Police (or claim is very misleading since the purchase agreement was signed by anyone else) during the alleged investigation. It appears there is both parties on 23 April 1993, and Aum handed over the bank cheque room here for some interesting scenarios and, at least, a few impor- — on | June 1993. tant questions require answering. At the time of the "fireball" event at 23.03 hours on Friday evening The exchange of Aum's bank cheque to the owner of Banjawarn 28 May 1993, the Aum knew that Banjawarn was theirs by legally took place on 1 June 1993. Thus, actual ownership of Banjawarn sta- enforceable right. They also knew there was rarely anyone in resi- tion was in the hands of the Aum sect via a front company only three — dence at the station buildings during weekends from Friday to days after the fireball event of 28 May 1993, though this had been Monday when, typically, the station owner and his wife would drive guaranteed by signed agreement some 35 days before the Banjawarn 100 km to the southwest to stay with relatives. fireball event. The party of strangely dressed Japanese persons (Aum?) could eas- NEXUS - 47 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1997